ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,995, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Reno, Nev.).
"Audio message extraction" was invented by Neil Christopher Fritz (Tempe, Ariz.), Lakshya Bhagat (Seattle), Scott Southwood (Seattle), Katelyn Doran (Seattle), Brett Lounsbury (Phoenix) and Christo Frank Devaraj (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Audio data, corresponding to an utterance spoken by a person within a detection range of a voice communications device, can include an audio message portion. The audio data can be captured and analyzed to determine the intent to send a message. Based at least in part upon that intent, a remaining portion of t...